Eric Chaisson Quote

Silently and majestically, galaxies twirl in the faraway tracts of the Universe — vast pinwheels of energy, matter, and perhaps life — imparting a feeling simultaneously for the immensity of the Universe and for the mediocrity of our position in it.

The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution, Chapter 1 (p. 18), The Atlantic Monthly Press. 1987